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Rudolf E. Kálmán

1930 - 2016

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Rudolf Emil Kálmán (May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf E. Kálmán has received more than 422,678 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf E. Kálmán is the 381st most popular mathematician (down from 302nd in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 215th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 381 out of 1,004. Before him are Philipp Frank, Felix Bernstein, Hypsicles, Sam Loyd, Viggo Brun, and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel. After him are William Sealy Gosset, William Jones, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Richard Courant, Grigory Margulis, and Maryam Mirzakhani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 181. Before him are Sa'dun Hammadi, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Mildred Dresselhaus, Robert Culp, Frank McCourt, and Anatoly Lukyanov. After him are Thomas P. Stafford, María Elena Walsh, Jānis Pujats, Lazar Berman, Ahmad Jamal, and Jordi Pujol. Among people deceased in 2016, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 150. Before him are Anker Jørgensen, Silvana Pampanini, Trifon Ivanov, Zdravko Tolimir, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, and Peter Vaughan. After him are Abe Vigoda, Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Götz George, Rudi Altig, Curtis Hanson, and Ferdinand Kübler.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 261 out of 1,077. Before him are Antal Doráti (1906), Frigyes Karinthy (1887), Jenő Hubay (1858), László Bárdossy (1890), László Csatáry (1915), and Maximilian de Angelis (1889). After him are Béni Kállay (1839), Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary (1817), Imre Steindl (1839), Amrita Sher-Gil (1913), Prince Álmos (1070), and Gabor Maté (1944).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Rudolf E. Kálmán ranks 5. Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), George Pólya (1887), and Marcel Grossmann (1878). After him are John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), and Klára Dán von Neumann (1911).

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